Joyo Sweet Baby - Honest Opinion

[Schpudd]

So I was lucky enough to get one of these from my brother for my birthday - and this has probably been talked about a bunch but I'll give my honest opinion.

Firstly, I absolutely love it. Not just for the price but because it sounds absolutely incredible - which is probably to be as expected as it's essentially a clone of a Mad Professor Sweet Honey. An unethical clone, maybe - but it's definitely made me want to go Mad Professor in the future.

Unfortunately I've not stacked this into any other pedals yet. I'm still waiting on an amp repair too so I had to use my trusty Blackstar.

However - firstly it truly is the most touch sensitive pedal I've used and it made me -want- to start picking softer and harder. It emphasised the dynamics without ever feeling like it was clipping unnaturally. The overdrive really kicks in when you hit hard and I really felt like I was rocking out - this was such a fun pedal to play.

The 'focus' knob was the icing on the cake for me though. When using my bridge pickup I found I liked it about 10 o'clock. It smoothed things out, and made it feel like I was cutting auditory room temperature butter. How's that for a metaphor?

But - when I used the neck I liked the extra treble and almost turned the focus knob somewhere between 3 o'clock and all the way up. I'm not sure how this affects the gain stage but definitely had more treble and made the neck pickup feel more like the bridge. Now I had a lot of fun experimenting with that, and felt like this pedal really would cut through - this is going to be the main way I use the pedal and I think it'd be interesting to see how this works as a clean boost through my regular amp and how the focus knob shapes the EQ without any extra overdrive.

I can't overstate how much this pedal genuinely makes me want to play - and I'm a bit of a bedroom wankery shreddy metalhead. I just secretly can't get enough of dumble and tweed.

Being a Joyo, however, it felt a little bit cheap. The box it came in was nice, and it was neatly packed but the switch definitely feels like it might break if it has someone chunky like me stamped on it a little too hard. Maybe I'm judging too harshly - but I almost feel like the case could just be sturdier. But for £35 this is genuinely my only complaint, don't tell Joyo I'd have been happy paying a lot more than that...

[Dave_Mc]

sweet, nice review

i've got a bunch of the older joyos and they're very nice

[Niallmo]

Cool. I've been very interested in these. Will be buying one. Need to shift some stuff first though...

[bobsbobbackwards]

I had a gas attack in Toneworld today and bought a Mad Professor SHOD. Great pedal, should have really got the Joyo one myself but while I was in the shop it was too easy to buy the Mad Professor one.....
Kind of regretted it on the way home, bit of buyers remorse but plugging in when I got home I realised I've been looking for this pedal for years!

[jonnyburgo]

I want one. May get one off the bay soon.

[longjaw]

Wish they made reverb pedals.

[TamBaird]

Hi all, Talking of Joyo stuff, i just got me one of these, please excuse the crap pic, it`s actually one of their Ultimate Octave jobs :




Good ol` cash converters

Not really sure if i like it or not yet, i`ve only been able to mess about with it quietly so far, but i`ll maybe give it a bit of a battering on the weekend.
In the meantime i`d be happy to hear anyone else`s opinions on it, good or bad.
Cheers, Tam.

PS. Sorry to Schpudd for slightly hi-jacking his thread.

[guitarcookie1]

Wish they made reverb pedals.

Yes, this...

[bigdawg]

If you want a reverb you can use the delay and just turn down the delay knob - I use it this way for stuff like albatross, whole lot of love...

[jonnyburgo]

I can't tell the difference from this...